The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 44
The prince, whom the strict etiquette of the court had prevented from being present in the underground hall, was burning with impatience in his own apartments.
Who acts: prince · What happens: prevent, be, burn · To what, where: strict etiquette, underground hall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burning | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prevented | punct |
| 4 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prevented | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 etiquette | det |
| 6 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 etiquette | amod |
| 7 | etiquette | etiquette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prevented | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 etiquette | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prevented | aux |
| 12 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prince | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 present | case |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 present | cop |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prevented | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 18 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hall | amod |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 present | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 burning | aux |
| 22 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 impatience | case |
| 24 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burning | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 apartments | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 apartments | amod |
| 28 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 impatience | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | past · perfect · passive | the strict etiquette of the court | the prince obl | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the underground hall | present property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn | past · progressive | the prince | with impatience in prince's own apartments | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with impatience=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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